If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.